Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-29
NEW MANAGEMENT
I'm portant Changes Among the Oficsrs
Of the Santa Fe.

1t is announced that several important
changes take place among the controlling
or prominent officials of the Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe j. F. Goddard, pres
ent assistant general manager, becomes
general manager in place of c. W. Smith,
first vice president, who goes to Chicago.
w. F. White, gener Al passenger agent, be-
comes general traffic manager, whose sue
cessor has not yet been determined upon SO
far as we know. J. s. Leeds continues as
general freight agent. Mr.. Goddard has
been with the road almost from the first Is
has Mr.. White. Robinson, Goddard aud
White have had more to do with tie prac-
tical side and every day history Of that great
corporation than anybody else. Presidents,
directors and managers have come and
gone, and many Of them have been forgot
ten in the great army of patrons of the road
but the impress made by Goddard, White
and Robinson will last for years though
they ceased to act to day. Goddard has
proved himself born manager equal to
any question or emergency that has ever
yet arisen touching local or transcontinen-
tai freights And primarily, the business
of a railroad is that Of traffic. Mr.. God
dard now becomes the general manager, the
practical and directing head Of the operat-
ing interests of one Of the greatest railways
In the world, whose lines reach from the
lakes to the Pacific, and from the Missouri
and Arkansas rivers to the gulf. Vice
President Robinson will still hold his posi-
ton and that of chief engineer. From the
Capital we clip the following biographical
mentions:
Mr.. Goddard was born in Brockton,
Mass, where he WAS educated. and lived
until 1862, when he enlisted in the Forty
fifth Massachusetts infantry, in which
regiment he served until the close of the
war. he then continued In the public
service in the quar,ermaste1's department.
This took him to all parts of the country,
Colorado being the field Of his last govern
mcnt service From Colorado he went
to Chicago, where in 1863 he en-
tered the general freight office of the Chi,
cago, Burlington s. Quincy railroad as
clerk. In 1871 he was appointed assist
ant general freight agent of the Burlington
system, and in 1878 he came with Mr.
Strong to the Atchison system rs general
freight agent In 1882 he was appointed
traffic manager.
Mr.. White was born in Connecticut, but
lived nearly all the first twenty-five years
of his life in New York city. His first
railroad employment was as an axeman in
an engineering corps on the old united
railroads Of the New Jersey system, under
General Superintendent jackson He
subsequently went iuto Mr.. Jackson's Of
flee. His next change was in the ticket
business in the service of the same com
pany. On the event of some extensive con-
solicitations in which the Pennsylvania rail
road took possession of the New jersey
roads Mr.. White came to Iowa to be gen.
eral passenger and ticket agent Of the Iowa
Central On his arrival in Iowa, however,
be found the Central in the hands of a re-
ceiver, and his occupation gone" He
was immediately appointed by Mr.. A. E.
Touzalin to the place of southwestern
passenger agent of the Hopkins
route &C. B. & Q. In Iowa. with an
Office at Kansas City. When the Atchison
system began to grow Mr.. White was made
chief clerk in the general freight and pas
senger department under NJ L. Sergeant
Afterwards he was appointed general tick
ct agent. while Major Anders9n vas gener-
al passenger agent: and when Major An
derson went west Mr. White was made
general passenger and ticket agent. The
present appointment of general traffic man.
ager is the first change Glr. White has
made since the Atchison went out of short
dresses and became a considerable sort Of
q railroad.